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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for April 2008:
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Medicare Advantage Drives Humana Profit
The health insurer reported a 12.5 percent rise in first-quarter profit, citing growth in its Medicare Advantage and commercial businesses...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
RadioShack Posts Lower Profit
The consumer electronics retailer posted a lower first-quarter profit as sales fell and an increase in promotions hurt gross margin, sending its shares plunging about 11 percent...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Sysco Earnings Beat Wall Street Estimates
The strong performance of Sysco?s Broadline segment helped offset sluggish restaurant sales and soaring food costs in the third quarter...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Tyson Foods Posts $5 Million Loss on High Costs
The world?s largest meat producer cited high feed and fuel costs and charges for previously-disclosed plant closings for the second-quarter loss...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
AH Belo Posts Quarterly Loss on Weak Ad Sales
AH Belo reported a loss in its first quarter since the newspaper company was spun off from Belo Corporation, with advertising revenue down and expected to fall further during 2008...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Accounts, People, Miscellany
In advertising this week...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included Monday?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Looking ahead: The Week?s Major Economic Reports
It is a big week for economic news, with the Federal Reserve decision on interest rates on Wednesday and the unemployment report for April on Friday...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
The Media Equation: At Journal, the Words Not Spoken
Two departing high-ranking Wall Street Journal employees, including its managing editor, are under nondisparagement clauses...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Loews Profit Falls 14%
Declining results from the conglomerate?s insurance and tobacco units offset improved results from drilling operations in the quarter...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Take a Picture of an Ad, Earn a Reward
The magazines Rolling Stone and Men?s Health are testing programs in which readers can take cameraphone pictures of icons on ads to receive more information or an offer from the advertiser...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Chavez Threatens to Expropriate Steel Maker
President Hugo Chávez says shareholders of Sidor, the country?s largest steel maker, are demanding excessive compensation for the company?s nationalization...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Arts, Briefly: MySpace Will Hold Talent Show Auditions
NBC, FremantleMedia and MySpace are expected to announce a partnership that will treat the social network as a ?virtual audition city? for the third season of ?America?s Got Talent.?...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Drilling Down: In Cellphones, Price Gains on Quality
In a recent survey, a larger proportion than before cited price as the deciding factor for changing cellphone carriers, while fewer cited signal quality...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Strike at Scotland Refinery Forces BP to Shut a Pipeline
Workers walked off the job Sunday at the only oil refinery in Scotland, requiring BP to close a pipeline that supplies about a third of Britain?s petroleum needs...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
E-Commerce Report: Users Demand Expertise at How-To Web Sites
Barnes & Noble has introduced a new Website that aims to teach Web users things as diverse as the basics of football and how to build a Web site...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
History Hints a Recession Would Hit City Hard
Business-tax revenues and the number of building permits are dropping while unemployment and office space availability are creeping up. All are troubling signs for the city...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
President Drops in on ?Deal or No Deal?
President Bush?s appearance on the NBC game show bore an uncanny resemblance to the satirical movie ?American Dreamz.?...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Cartoons of a Racist Past Lurk on YouTube
Among the millions of clips on the video-sharing Web site YouTube are 11 racially offensive Warner Brothers cartoons that have not been shown in an authorized release since 1968...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Loan Industry Fighting Rules on Mortgages
One common industry criticism of the plan to put in place tougher regulations is that tighter rules could make many mortgages more expensive...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
With Slump Paramount, Fed Is Likely to Cut Rates
Two days ahead of a Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting this week, the widely shared consensus is that the Fed is likely to cut its benchmark short-term interest rate to 2 percent from 2.25 percent...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Link by Link: Reluctantly, a Daily Stops Its Presses, Living Online
On Saturday, The Capital Times, the fabled 90-year-old daily newspaper of Madison, Wis., stopped printing to devote itself to publishing its daily report on the Web...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search
The company presented a new algorithm for blending image-recognition software methods with techniques for weighting and ranking images that look most similar...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Advertising: The Four A?s Tries to Rebuild Momentum
The annual management conference of the leading industry trade organization, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, which starts Monday, is looking to offer a stronger program...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Murdoch?s ?Head of Content?
Robert Thomson, the new de-facto editor at The Wall Street Journal, is charged with executing the vision of its owner, Rupert Murdoch...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Revealing Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise
A picture of Disney star Miley Cyrus posing in satin sheets in Vanity Fair has sparked outrage from parents...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Better Days, and Even the Candidates, Are Coming to W.W.E.
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama appeared on World Wrestling Entertainment last week...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Growing Customer Base Lifts Verizon Profit
The company earned $1.64 billion in the first quarter, up 9.8 percent from a year ago, as its wireless division attracted more customers...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Home Vacancy Rates Set Record in First Quarter
The Census Bureau reported that 2.28 million properties, or 2.9 percent of U.S. homes, excluding rental properties, were vacant and for sale in the period...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Venture Firm Hires Creative Chief at Electronic Arts
William B. Gordon, a dean of video games who was one of Electronic Arts? first employees, in 1982, is leaving E.A. for the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Higher Inflation Emerging in Europe
Europe is facing a ?very strong inflationary shock? as a result of rising energy and food costs, the top European Union official for economic affairs said on Monday...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Stocks Finish Little Changed Ahead of Fed Meeting
Investors reacted little to acquisition news, showing caution ahead of the Federal Reserve policy meeting this week...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Dental Clinics, Meeting a Need With No Dentist
A program in Alaska trains dental therapists to provide basic services in communities chronically underserved...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
United Evaluates Its Merger Options
The chief executive of United, Glenn F. Tilton, indicated on Monday that the carrier?s efforts to find a partner would continue after a rival, Continental Airlines, abandoned merger talks...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Panel to Look at Foreclosure Practices
A Senate subcommittee plans to investigate whether mortgage lenders are deepening the foreclosure crisis by levying dubious fees on troubled borrowers...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
WB Network Returns as a Web Site
Warner Brothers hopes to find an online audience for its programs, particularly with young women...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Battle in Brooklyn | A Principal?s Rise and Fall: Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School
The fight against a school in Brooklyn was led by an organized movement to stop Muslim citizens who are seeking an expanded role in American public life...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Mars to Buy Wrigley?s for $23 Billion
The deal for the chewing gum company, financed in part by Warren E. Buffett, creates a confectionery behemoth...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Hotels Try New Features With Test Rooms
Hotels are increasingly using test rooms with experimental technology and features...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Austria Says Man Locked Up Daughter
Austrian police have arrested a 73-year-old man who they say kept his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
The Lede: The Allure of the Forever Stamp
Risky investments seem to be everywhere these days ? except for one unique deal at the local post office...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
City Room: Ask About Alternative Energy
Taking Questions: Through Friday, Carol E. Murphy will answer reader questions about alternative energy choices for consumers, what New York City is doing to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels and how city dwellers can decrease their carbon footprint...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
As North Carolina Primary Looms, Eyes on Edwards
Neither John Edwards nor his wife has endorsed a candidate, despite the growing intensity of the Democratic race...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Amid High Oil Prices, Danger Signs in Production
High prices have done little to attract new production or to suppress global demand, sending oil prices spiraling...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Kerkorian Buys 4.7% of Ford and Plans More
Kirk Kerkorian?s investment arm said that it had bought 100 million Ford shares since April 2 for $690 million...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Gazan Mother and 4 Children Killed
A Palestinian mother and her four young children were killed in Gaza during an Israeli operation against militants, and a dispute quickly arose over exactly how they had died...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
U.S. Begins Sending Out Tax Rebates
The federal government began issuing electronic tax rebates under a $168 billion program to bolster the sagging economy...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Supreme Court Upholds Voter Identification Law in Indiana
In a 6-to-3 ruling, justices rejected arguments that a requirement that voters produce photo identification imposes unjustified burdens on the poor and minorities...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Wright Says Criticism Is Attack on Black Church
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. defended comments of his that have become an issue in the presidential campaign...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Golf: Veteran Masters starter dies
Phil Harison, who spent 60 years as the starter on the first tee of the Masters, dies at the age of 82...
BBC News - April 28, 2008
US court approves voter ID laws
The US Supreme Court rules that states can continue to require voters to show photo identification in order to vote...
BBC News - April 28, 2008
Spain rejects Peron extradition
A Spanish court refuses to extradite former Argentine President Isabel Peron over alleged human rights abuses...
BBC News - April 28, 2008
AH Belo Posts Quarterly Loss on Weak Ad Sales
AH Belo reported a loss in its first quarter since the newspaper company was spun off from Belo Corporation, with advertising revenue down and expected to fall further during 2008...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Medicare Advantage Drives Humana Profit
The health insurer reported a 12.5 percent rise in first-quarter profit, citing growth in its Medicare Advantage and commercial businesses...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
RadioShack Posts Lower Profit
The consumer electronics retailer posted a lower first-quarter profit as sales fell and an increase in promotions hurt gross margin, sending its shares plunging about 11 percent...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Sysco Earnings Beat Wall Street Estimates
The strong performance of Sysco?s Broadline segment helped offset sluggish restaurant sales and soaring food costs in the third quarter...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Tyson Foods Posts $5 Million Loss on High Costs
The world?s largest meat producer cited high feed and fuel costs and charges for previously-disclosed plant closings for the second-quarter loss...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Loews Profit Falls 14%
Declining results from the conglomerate?s insurance and tobacco units offset improved results from drilling operations in the quarter...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Gas Hits $3.60 a Gallon as Crude Nears $120
Oil futures rose to a record as labor actions threatened crude supplies from the North Sea and Nigeria. Oil prices later retreated as the dollar stabilized against other currencies...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Growing Customer Base Lifts Verizon Profit
The company earned $1.64 billion in the first quarter, up 9.8 percent from a year ago, as its wireless division attracted more customers...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Signs of Attacks on Zimbabwe?s Opposition
There is growing evidence of widespread retribution against people who supported the opposition party...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
The Lede: Day?s Headlines, Full of Second Chances
Welcoming arms for Jérôme Kerviel, the Olympic torch, General Motors and Jerry Springer...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
City Room: Lost World of the Fulton Fish Market
The lost world of the Fulton Fish Market is on display at South Street Seaport, which is exhibiting a collection of 37 photographs of the market, taken in the 1970's and 1980's by Barbara G. Mensch...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Dot Earth: Defending ?Warming Island? Claim
An Arctic explorer defends his discovery of "Warming Island."...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Mars Acquires Wrigley?s for $23 Billion
The deal for the chewing gum company, financed in part by Warren E. Buffett, creates a confectionery behemoth...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Family Killed in Israeli Operation
A Palestinian mother and her four young children were killed in Gaza during an Israeli operation against militants, and a dispute quickly arose over exactly how they had died...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Austria Says Man Locked Up Daughter
Austrian police have arrested a 73-year-old man who they say kept his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Winds Fan California Wildfires
Strong gusts threatened to fan the flames of intense wildfires that have burned through hundreds of acres of dry brush near Los Angeles for several days...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Supreme Court Upholds Voter Identification Law in Indiana
In a 6-to-3 ruling, justices rejected arguments that a requirement that voters produce photo identification imposes unjustified burdens on the poor and minorities...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Kerkorian Buys 4.7% of Ford and Plans More
Tracinda, the investment vehicle of Kirk Kerkorian, said that it had bought 100 million Ford shares since April 2 for $690 million...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Battle in Brooklyn | A Principal?s Rise and Fall: Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School
The fight against a school in Brooklyn was led by an organized movement to stop Muslim citizens who are seeking an expanded role in American public life...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Wright Says Criticism Is Attack on Black Church
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. mounted a spirited defense of views and sermons that have become an issue in the presidential campaign...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Mars set to pocket Wrigley's gum
Confectionery giant Mars is set to buy US firm Wrigley's, best known for its chewing gum, in a deal worth $23bn...
BBC News - April 28, 2008
Obama's pastor replies to critics
The controversial former pastor of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama hits back at his critics...
BBC News - April 28, 2008
History Hints a Recession Would Hit City Hard
Business-tax revenues and the number of building permits are dropping while unemployment and office space availability are creeping up. All are troubling signs for the city...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
38 Militants Killed in Baghdad
The U.S. military says American and Iraqi troops have killed 38 militants in fighting in Baghdad...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Train Collision Kills Dozens in China
The crash killed at least 66 people and injured hundreds more, a state news agency reported, making it one of the deadliest rail accidents in recent years...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
No move as Yahoo deadline expires
A deadline expires for Yahoo to agree to Microsoft's $44.6bn offer, paving the way for a hostile bid...
BBC News - April 28, 2008
Exxon 'is low on transparency'
Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest energy group, is as secretive as its Russian and Chinese rivals, a report says...
BBC News - April 28, 2008
Accounts, People, Miscellany
In advertising this week...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included Monday?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Looking ahead: The Week?s Major Economic Reports
It is a big week for economic news, with the Federal Reserve decision on interest rates on Wednesday and the unemployment report for April on Friday...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
The Media Equation: At Journal, the Words Not Spoken
Two departing high-ranking Wall Street Journal employees, including its managing editor, are under nondisparagement clauses...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Cartoons of a Racist Past Lurk on YouTube
Among the millions of clips on the video-sharing Web site YouTube are 11 racially offensive Warner Brothers cartoons that have not been shown in an authorized release since 1968...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Take a Picture of an Ad, Earn a Reward
The magazines Rolling Stone and Men?s Health are testing programs in which readers can take cameraphone pictures of icons on ads to receive more information or an offer from the advertiser...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Chavez Threatens to Expropriate Steel Maker
President Hugo Chávez says shareholders of Sidor, the country?s largest steel maker, are demanding excessive compensation for the company?s nationalization...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Arts, Briefly: MySpace Will Hold Talent Show Auditions
NBC, FremantleMedia and MySpace are expected to announce a partnership that will treat the social network as a ?virtual audition city? for the third season of ?America?s Got Talent.?...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Drilling Down: In Cellphones, Price Gains on Quality
In a recent survey, a larger proportion than before cited price as the deciding factor for changing cellphone carriers, while fewer cited signal quality...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
E-Commerce Report: Users Demand Expertise at How-To Web Sites
Barnes & Noble has introduced a new Website that aims to teach Web users things as diverse as the basics of football and how to build a Web site...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Advertising: The Four A?s Tries to Rebuild Momentum
The annual management conference of the leading industry trade organization, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, which starts Monday, is looking to offer a stronger program...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Golden Years of Television Find New Life on the Web
Television distributors have recently made thousands of episodes of programs like ?The Twilight Zone? and ?The Mary Tyler Moore Show? available free online...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
John McConnell, 84, Steel and Hockey Magnate, Dies
Mr. McConnell was a self-made steel magnate and sports enthusiast who established what became a multibillion-dollar company and later brought professional hockey to Columbus, Ohio...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
President Drops in on ?Deal or No Deal?
President Bush?s appearance on the NBC game show bore an uncanny resemblance to the satirical movie ?American Dreamz.?...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Link By Link: Reluctantly, a Daily Stops Its Presses, Living Online
On Saturday, The Capital Times, the fabled 90-year-old daily newspaper of Madison, Wis., stopped printing to devote itself to publishing its daily report on the Web...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
With Slump Paramount, Fed Is Likely to Cut Rates
Two days ahead of a Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting this week, the widely shared consensus is that the Fed is likely to cut its benchmark short-term interest rate to 2 percent from 2.25 percent...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search
The company presented a new algorithm for blending image-recognition software methods with techniques for weighting and ranking images that look most similar...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Strike at Scotland Refinery Forces BP to Shut a Pipeline
Workers walked off the job Sunday at the only oil refinery in Scotland, requiring BP to close a pipeline that supplies about a third of Britain?s petroleum needs...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Revealing Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise
A picture of Disney star Miley Cyrus posing in satin sheets in Vanity Fair has sparked outrage from parents...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Murdoch?s ?Head of Content?
Robert Thomson, the new de-facto editor at The Wall Street Journal, is charged with executing the vision of its owner, Rupert Murdoch...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Better Days, and Even the Candidates, Are Coming to W.W.E.
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama appeared on World Wrestling Entertainment last week...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Lawyers Fear Monitoring in Cases on Terrorism
Across the country, particularly in Oregon, lawyers who represent suspects in terrorism-related investigations fear their clients are being secretly monitored by the U.S. government...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
A Pampered Champion?s Finicky Taste
In an industry that requires horses to breed the old-fashioned way, War Emblem?s lack of interest has been costly...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Her Dream, Branded as a Threat
A chorus of critics cost a Muslim educator her school in what they call an early skirmish in a broader struggle...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Video Game Review | Grand Theft Auto IV: Grand Theft Auto Takes On New York
Grand Theft Auto IV is a violent, intelligent, profane, endearing, obnoxious, sly, richly textured and thoroughly compelling work of cultural satire disguised as fun...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways
The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort to create policy governing interactions between the medical colleges and drug and medical device companies...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Peaceful Protest Mixes With Attacks in Sadr City
A demonstration against violence was held by members of the Iraqi Parliament even as clashes went on nearby...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Karzai Escapes Attack in Kabul by Gunmen
The attack by suspected Taliban insurgents on a military parade in the capital, which killed three, was embarrassing for the Afghan government...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Austria Says Man Jailed Daughter for 24 Years
Austrian police arrested a 73-year-old man who they believe kept his daughter locked in a cellar along with three of seven children he fathered with her...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Eyes on Blue-Collar Voters, Obama Shifts Style
Fearful that he is being portrayed as out of touch with working-class Democrats, the senator is trading big stadium rallies for smaller town-hall-style meetings...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Passenger Trains Collide in Eastern China
The crash killed dozens and injured 247, a state news agency reported, making it one of the deadliest rail accidents in recent years...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Election Day in Florida May Look Familiar
Eight years after the ?hanging chads,? experts say it is harder to vote in Florida than in nearly every other state...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Dental Clinics, Meeting a Need With No Dentist
A program in Alaska trains dental therapists to provide basic services in communities chronically underserved...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Continental Abandons Merger Talks With United
Continental?s decision to remain an independent carrier was a blow to lengthy efforts by United to find a merger partner...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Loan Industry Fighting Rules on Mortgages
One common industry criticism of the plan to put in place tougher regulations is that tighter rules could make many mortgages more expensive...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Signs of Attacks on the Opposition Rise in Zimbabwe
Evidence of widespread retribution against people who supported Zimbabwe?s opposition party in last month?s election has begun to stream out...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
Candy Maker Reported Near Deal for Chewing Gum Giant
Mars, maker of M&M?s, was said to be near a $22-billion deal to acquire Wrigley, the gum company, people involved in the talks said...
New York Times - April 28, 2008
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